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Magazines and websites on the business of writing

Poets&Writers
Website and magazine serving creative writers in the United States

Poetry

Poetry Ireland - Eigse Eireann
Connecting poetry and people in Ireland.
Poetry Magazines - Saison Poetry Library
Saison Poetry Library's fulltext, digital collection of 20th and 21st century of UK poetry magazines from the Southbank Centre London. The collection includes podcasts.
The Scottish Poetry Library
A comprehensive library and catalogue, not full text of Scottish poetry with an information service and interesting projects to "advocate for the art of poetry, and Scottish poetry in particular." there are podcasts and a blog...
The Poetry Society
The Poetry Society was founded in 1909 to promote “a more general recognition and appreciation of poetry”. The website includes some readings and podcasts.
The Poetry Archive
An archive of contemporary English language poets reading their own work, through historic recordings and recent work. There is a significant collection of children's poetry.

Library Catalogues

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Copac exposes rare and unique research material by bringing together the catalogues of 90 major UK and Irish libraries (and growing). In a single search you can discover the holdings of the UK’s national libraries (including the British Library), many University libraries, and specialist research libraries.
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Catalogue of books and other materials in libraries worldwide

Dewey Decimal Classes for Literature

General databases in Literature

Screen and Media Writing

BBC Writer's Lab
Interviews, advice, toolkits, guidelines and other resources to help and support your writing.
Simply Scripts
A database of hundreds of downloadable scripts, movie scripts, screenplays, and transcripts of current, classics, television, anime and radio shows.
Movie Scripts and Screenplays
Move Scripts and screen plays on the web with a useful links page.

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Awards and Prizes

European Union Prize for Literature
The aim of the European Prize for Literature is to put the spotlight on the creativity and diverse wealth of Europe’s contemporary literature in the field of fiction, to promote the circulation of literature within Europe and encourage greater interest in non-national literary works.
Impac Dublin International Literary Award
An annual award for a novel written or translated into English
Man Booker Prize
"the best novel in the opinion of the judges"
Started in 1969, the Man Booker prize aims to promote the finest in fiction by rewarding the best novel of the year written in English and published in the United Kingdom.
PEN Literary Awards
The PEN Literary Awards are awards for fiction and non fiction writing in the United States. They encompass novels, drama, poetry, science writing and also children's fiction
English Pen Prizes
PEN Pinter - outstanding writer resident in England
PEN Ackerley - outstanding literary autobiography
PEN Hessell-Titlmann - historical work of high literary merit
Bord Gais Energy Irish Book Awards
A showcase and celebration of Irish Writing
The Folio Prize
English language book prize open to writers from around the world. Celebrating the best fiction of our time, regardless of form or genre, and to bring it to the attention of as many readers as possible, putting great literature at the centre of their lives.
Nobel Prize for Literature
Annual Prize awarded to an author from any country, writing in any genre whose writing is outstanding and "ideal" and selected by the Swedish Academy.
Listowel Writer's Week Prizes
Piggot Poetry Prize
Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year

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Magazines and websites on the business of writing

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